Plone User Training

This half day non-technical class is geared towards individuals who will be managing a Plone website or creating content. It assumes that students have a basic understanding of web technologies.  No previous experience with Plone is required. This is a hands-on class and students should bring a laptop computer.

The following syllabus may be adjusted slightly depending on student interests.

First Hour

GETTING STARTED

• What is a Content Management System?
• Logging in to Plone

CREATING CONTENT

• Content types
• Pages
• Files, Images
• News, Events
• Adding content - Exercise

WORKFLOW

• Workflow states
• Private
• Published
• Submitted
• Publishing content - Exercise

Second Hour

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

• Designing a usable IA
• Browsing
• Searching
• Collections
• Finding content - Exercise

FOLDERS

• Contents tab
• Navigating folders
• Reordering content
• Cutting, pasting, and deleting content
• Managing content - Exercise
• Organizing content in folders
• What can be added
• Folder views
• Default pages

Third Hour

RICH PAGE CONTENT

• WYSIWYG editing
• Inline editing
• Links
• Managing images
• Metadata
• Keywords
• Related items
• Commenting
• Publishing dates
• Rich page editing - Exercise

Fourth Hour

COLLECTIONS

• What are collections?
• Criteria
• Ordering
• Sub-collections
• Views
• Adding collections - Exercise

PORTLETS

• Managing portlets
• Portlet types
• Static portlets
• Collection portlets
• RSS portlets
• Calendar and Event portlets
• News portlets
• Adding portlets - Exercise